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Old 31 Mar 2009, 23:22 (Ref:2430163)   #1
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The Danica Patrick super thread (Danica enters Nationwide Daytona)
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IRL superstar Danica Patrick has made a shock announcement that she will be moving into the #43 in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship. Patrick, after what she feels have been "wasted" seasons in the IRL, says she is looking forward to mixing it with the drivers from NASCAR.

"It will be very different to what I am used to, these NASCAR vehicles." said Patrick. "However I'm sure I'll be able to 'bump' and 'push' my way to the front in no time!"

Patrick would not comment on her new teammate, Juan Pablo Montoya, who currently drives the #42.
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"Superstar"???
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Old 1 Apr 2009, 05:10 (Ref:2430289)   #3
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I particularly like the line about being team mates with Montoya. Last time I checked the #42 and #43 were owned by different people
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I have £20 says she will never qualify for a race, I like the way she has obviously looked at what Dario did and said "Ha! I'm better than that!"
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Hopefully one day she will. Will be so entertaining to see her struggle in a car which requires you to lift in the corners on an oval.
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Hopefully one day she will. Will be so entertaining to see her struggle in a car which requires you to lift in the corners on an oval.
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Old 15 Jun 2009, 18:13 (Ref:2483927)   #10
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Danica Patrick will be in NASCAR next season. If NASCAR executives can pull it off. George Pyne -- the former NASCAR Chief Operating Officer, and thus one of the top officials in stock car racing, and now head of IMG sports and entertainment, the high-buck talent marketing agency – and key NASCAR executives are together working the entire Sprint Cup garage trying to put together a package for Patrick to run NASCAR next season. Finding sponsorship is quite likely not the big issue, as hot a property as Danica Patrick is. (mikemulhern.net)(6-15-2009)
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I would state my opinions on Danica, but I am pretty sure that they will be frowned upon.


However, her coming to Nascar was only a matter of time IMO.
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DP in a stockcar? for real this time?
on pins and needles...maybe she will even drive b4 the year is out!
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Meh. It's from Mike Mulhearn so I'd take it with a grain of salt and wait for the news conference.
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If she does make the move, it will clearly be a total disaster. I can see no reason she would make this move for anything other than money. There wouldn't be anything wrong with that: it is no crime to switch employer for greater income.

However, from a career improvement/race success POV, it would be a terrible move. I would be perfectly happy for her to make the switch and do well, but I just do not see success.
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Imagine if she replaced Dale Jnr in the #88 at Hendricks - she could learn of great team-mates in Gordon, Johnson & Martin....
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Imagine if she replaced Dale Jnr in the #88 at Hendricks

we would have an utter and complete nascar mutiny on our hands.
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According to Mulhern, it seems the team she is heading for is Roush, which is interesting considering Roush have to reduce from 5 cars to 4

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Danica to Roush? Danica Patrick will be in a Jack Roush NASCAR Ford next season, bank on it. Well, don't bet the ranch, but there is a growing sense that that is the momentum on the issue, if the sexy Indy-car star does make the leap into stock car racing, as she has hinted. And in the NASCAR garage here at Infineon Raceway Roush himself pondered the Danica option Friday. Patrick herself has been talking around the NASCAR possibility for several weeks now but insists she won't be making any announcement of where she'll be racing next season until this fall [after the IRL's finale in Oct]. Last weekend Geoff Smith, head of Roush Fenway Racing, talked about the Danica Patrick option. What does Roush himself think about her as NASCAR stocker? "I don't know enough about her to know how much time she'd have to spend in the Nationwide series or Truck series," Roush said. "I'd say, as a minimum, two years in the Nationwide series would be required…and at the same time she could run six or seven Cup races, to maintain her rookie status. It just depends on how badly she wants it," Roush says of any Patrick move into NASCAR. Patrick has some big advantages, Roush points out: "I don't know of any problems with Danica Patrick. If a female is going to make it in NASCAR in the foreseeable future, it will be Danica Patrick.(mikemulhern.net)(6-20-2009)
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Shall I take my congratulations now or later on being the first one to pick this up?

I'll get me coat (and me crystal ball!)...
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Oh I think it going to happen for sure. In fact I've been told it is going to happen but the person that told me didn't have specifics yet. That's where the money and the future is and the irl is pottering along to the grave. Anyone that is around the irl right now can see it is a shambolic mess and the money is running out quickly. Any driver with a brain is looking for an escape raft.

Whether or not she is successful or not wont matter for a while as she'll be able to garner the sponsorship necessary to keep going for a while, while padding her pocketbook.
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Doh! I was hoping she would be in the new USF1 team! She could dice with Lewis!
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she will not be in the Cup series
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Doh! I was hoping she would be in the new USF1 team! She could dice with Lewis!
If so she'll get her rear end handed to her in a major way. On road courses in an indycar despite her significant weight advantage she has never really been able to keep up and in F1 with that weight advantage negated plus other factors she'll get creamed.

On ovals in indycar with equal cars and engines(mostly) and with most tracks being 100% throttle, it's really up to the engineer to pull it out of the hat and the driver just has to hang on and do what they are told.
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Nor will she be in F1. I think she will stay with the IRL but not with Andretti Green.
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Doh! I was hoping she would be in the new USF1 team! She could dice with Lewis!
love your work! (anything in the wind for Ant with the new teams?)
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Rumours she will move to the Ganassi Indycar team. That would give possibility to run a few NASCAR races.
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